Organizations

Connecting Interfaith Families to Jewish Life in Greater Cleveland by providing programs and opportunities for interfaith families to experience Judaism in a variety of venues, meet other interfaith families, and to connect to other Jewish organizations that may serve their needs.

For Program Providers

A great way for Jewish professionals and volunteers who work with and provide programming for people in interfaith relationships to locate resources and trainings to build more welcome into their Jewish communities; connect with and learn from each other; and publicize and enhance their programs and services.

Blogs

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The staff of InterfaithFamily write regularly about news of interest to interfaith families, outreach professionals and others interested in the intermarriage debate in the Jewish community. This blog is also available via RSS feed.

Our newest blog is a place for you, our readers, to share your own stories. Had a touching moment where your family or community totally got you, and you felt connected? Had a heartbreaking experience you want to get off your chest? Something hilarious happened at your kid’s summer camp? We want to hear about it! Email editor@interfaithfamily.com to share your story on this blog.

Recently engaged, interfaith couples reflect on their experiences planning an interfaith wedding ceremony. Follow them on their journey! If you are interested in blogging about your own upcoming wedding, email editor@interfaithfamily.com. This blog is also available via RSS feed.

Currently, Reva is blogging about her wedding planning in Chicago and Jordyn is blogging about her plans in Boston.

Parents share the challenges and joys, new experiences and triumphs that come with raising kids in an interfaith family. Some of our parent bloggers are Jews whose partners identify with other religions, some have converted to Judaism and others are raising Jewish kids while not Jewish themselves. If you are interested in joining this blogging team, email editor@interfaithfamily.com. This blog is also available via RSS feed.

Read Jane Larkin’s blog about being the Jewish half of an interfaith couple parenting a 10-year-old son in Dallas, TX, where she is a member of Temple Emanu-El.

And Jessie Boatright’s blog discusses raising Jewish daughters in Boston, MA, with her husband who was raised Protestant.

These fun, informative animated videos are updated monthly and explain questions around lifecycle events like weddings, births and death and mourning. Generously provided by G-dcast, (it rhymes with “podcast”), an organization that makes animated films to raise basic Jewish literacy, these videos will continue to be posted throughout 2015.

New to the Torah and the many characters and stories within it? Let G-dcast lead you through! They have turned each Torah portion into animated shorts and the entire series can be seen in this blog which is no longer being updated. Tune into the G-dcast Torahlog for your weekly dose of Torah — in cartoon form..